Awards

The IES Annual Conference in Pittsburgh was held November 2-4. Click here to see the sponsors. Here are some highlights courtesy of IES: Keynote speakers: Neil deGrasse Tyson led a lineup of four keynote speakers who framed their talks around the themes of Imagination, Integration, Inspiration and Illumination, the conference themes. Click here to learn [...]

The international jury for the Zumtobel Group Award 2014 has selected projects from Arup of Germany, Studio Tamassociati of Italy and Elemental of Chile as the winners in their respective categories. To promote innovations for sustainability and humanity in the built environment, the Austrian lighting group had invited submissions for the award in three categories: [...]

The Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Design Competition recently recognized 57 commercial LED indoor lighting products as part of its sixth annual awards program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers, the NGL competition recognizes excellence in the design of energy-efficient commercial general lighting. In 2013, [...]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University, Japan; and Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA and one of the founders of Soraa, Inc. for “the invention of efficient [...]

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING recently announced the winners of its 2014 lighting design awards competition. Click here to see this year’s winners.

The IESNYC has invited nine 2014 Lumen Award winning lighting designers to discuss what it takes to win a Lumen Award. In addition to discussing their award-winning projects, they will reveal how you too can have an award-winning submission. You’ll find out how to write effective text and submit eye-catching images and other tips to [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recently announced the recipients of the 2014 Lumen Awards. Ten New York City-based design firms – AKF Lighting Design, Arup, Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, Cooley Monato Studio, Focus Lighting, Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, L’Observatoire International, PHT Lighting Design, Renfro Design Group, and Tillotson Design [...]

Effective June 13, 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy suspended the L Prize PAR38 Competition. No entries will be accepted. The L Prize Competition launched in 2008 as the first government-sponsored technology competition designed to spur development of highly efficient, high-performance LED replacement products. A winning entry in the 60W replacement lamp category was awarded [...]

LIGHTFAIR was extraordinary this year, with many new products deserving attention. Dynamic control, color tuning, new forms and approaches, improving LED performance, extended control capabilities and more–get it all at the LIGHTFAIR Innovation Award entries here. The winners are included.